Marlin
Marlin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 81 births. Its best rank was 276th, in 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 810.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1935386 births
- Best rank
- #276in 1935
- Since 1884
- 22,725people given the name
The story in the numbers
21,078 boys have been named Marlin in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1935, with 386 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1951, and the 1930s alone account for 16%. It has spent 95 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,647 girls have also been given it, 7.2% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Marlin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 36 | |
| 1900s | 124 | |
| 1910s | 1,111 | |
| 1920s | 2,308 | |
| 1930s | 3,409 | |
| 1940s | 3,013 | |
| 1950s | 2,881 | |
| 1960s | 2,093 | |
| 1970s | 1,838 | |
| 1980s | 1,125 | |
| 1990s | 1,094 | |
| 2000s | 877 | |
| 2010s | 779 | |
| 2020s | 384 |
In 1935, its biggest year
Marlin was the 276th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1935 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1935.
Names that rose and fell with Marlin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Farrellpeak 1935
- Deltonpeak 1933
- Rayfordpeak 1937
- Doylepeak 1931
- Marvinpeak 1928
- Cleophuspeak 1947
- Teddypeak 1949
- Lynwoodpeak 1935
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.